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Chickens can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event. Males of the species are referred to as Cockerels as adolescents and Roosters as adults and can be distinguished by their ruddy brown coloration, while females are referred to as Hens and are white. Babies of either gender are bright yellow and referred to as Chicks.

Summary[edit]

Chickens are pen animals. Once tamed, pen animals cannot and do not need to be trained any further. But if left outside of a pen or caravan hitching spot, pen animals will eventually roam outside your colony. Making a caravan is not required to tie animals to a caravan hitching spot.

A female chicken produces 1 egg every 1 day. Chickens can lay both unfertilized and fertilized eggs, depending on if it has mated with a rooster.

Analysis[edit]

Chickens are the best animal for egg production, and one of the best animals for meat production.

Chickens grow very quickly, taking only 12 days to mature, placing them among the fastest-growing animals. Combined with their incredibly fast reproduction rate of 1 offspring per day, a population of chickens can rapidly explode from a single rooster and hen, theoretically increasing to a population of 1200 adults within the span of just a year. Once the population explosion gets going, the population will double every approximately 5.7 days.

Chickens are nearly identical to ducks. Ducks provide the same yield in both meat and eggs. But ducks consume 20% more nutrition, so they are inferior as livestock.

Eggs[edit]

An adult hen consumes 0.22 nutrition per day, and produces 0.25 nutrition of eggs each day. This results in a nutrition efficiency of 111.6% when unfertilized eggs are eaten. Overeating, and the existence of roosters, will lower nutrition efficiency in practice.

Note that slaughtering chicks gives more nutrition than eating unhatched eggs (0.6 from meat rather than 0.25 from 1 egg). Note that a rooster has to fertilize each hen, that hens have to be slaughtered, and that a butcher's yields are multiplied by Butchery Efficiency. So if you don't have a skilled cook, eggs may be better for nutrition. Also, eggs are vegetarian.

Meat[edit]

When slaughtered, a chicken yields 12 meat as a chick; 26 as a juvenile; or 42 as an adult. No leather is yielded.

When chicks are slaughtered, an always-fertilized hen produces 0.6 nutrition per day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of 267.9% for the hen alone, or 178.6% when accounting for the 2:1 hen:rooster ratio needed to achieve a good fertilization rate.

As a chick grows into adulthood, it will consume 1.45 nutrition in total, and will yield 1.5 more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. Due to the effects of overeating, letting chickens grow up is a slight malus to meat yield. Despite being slightly worse, you may prefer to let chicks grow up, as slaughtering adult chickens takes less work.

Chickens are the best pen animal for nutritional efficiency. The main competitors are the ibex and tortoise. Ibex are less efficient, but take far less slaughtering work. Tortoises aren't pen animals, meaning they must be re-tamed over time, but are even better for nutrition.

Kill-focused[edit]

Chicken's rapid reproduction makes them good fodder for the Kill-focused persona trait. This persona trait grants +20% psyfocus whenever its wielder kills any pawn, even when slaughtering chickens or chicks. A coop can allow rapid use of psycasts, such as word of inspiration, which would otherwise be limited by psyfocus.

Training[edit]

Chickens lack the intelligence for training.

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Health[edit]

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	14	1	100%	19%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	3.5	1	10%	10%	Body	-	-
Spine	8.75	1	5%	5%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	7	1	4%	4%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	5.25	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	5.25	2	4%	4%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	5.25	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	7	1	5%	5%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Neck	8.75	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	8.75	1	75%	3.1%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	8.75	1	30%	1.8%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed. Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	3.5	1	60%	2.7%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	3.5	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Beak	7	1	25%	3.8%	Head	Eating Talking Manipulation	−100% Manipulation −90% Eating^[6]
Leg	10.5	2	10%	5%	Body	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.
Foot	8.75	2	50%	5%	Leg	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ Note that eating won't go below 10%.

Gallery[edit]

Hen facing east
Hen facing north
Hen facing south
Chicken decaying

Rooster facing east
Rooster facing north
Rooster facing south

Chick facing east
Chick facing north
Chick facing south

Version history[edit]

0.12.906 - Added
Alpha 17 - Prior to Alpha 17, chickens were one of the fastest reproducing animals in the game. However, they were nerfed in Alpha 17 in both body size and breeding rate, making them significantly less efficient than they used to be. In fact, after Alpha 17, it was much more nutrition-efficient to farm snowhares for meat and cows for milk.
1.3:
- Egg interval: 2 -> 1
- Base hunger rate: 0.35 -> 0.14
- Maturity age: 0.3 -> 0.2

Animals

Herbivorous: Alpaca • Bison • Boomalope • Capybara • Caribou • Cassowary • Chicken • Chinchilla • Cow • Deer • Donkey • Dromedary • Duck • Elephant • Elk • Emu • Gazelle • Goat • Goose • Guinea pig • Hare • Horse • Ibex • Megasloth • Muffalo • Ostrich • Rhinoceros • Sheep • Snowhare • Squirrel • Turkey • Yak • Toxalope

Dendrovorous: Alphabeaver • Thrumbo

Omnivorous: Boomrat • Grizzly bear • Human • Husky • Iguana • Labrador retriever • Megascarab • Megaspider • Monkey • Pig • Polar bear • Spelopede • Raccoon • Rat • Tortoise • Wild boar • Yorkshire terrier • Waste rat

Carnivorous: Arctic fox • Arctic wolf • Cat • Cobra • Cougar • Fennec fox • Lynx • Panther • Red fox • Timber wolf • Warg

Dryads: Barkskin • Berrymaker • Carrier • Clawer • Gaumaker • Immature dryad • Medicinemaker • Woodmaker

[1] Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.

[2] Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.

[3] Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.

[4] This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.

[5] If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.

[6] Note that eating won't go below 10%.

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-|name = Chicken
+| page verified for version = 1.3.3101
-|image = Chicken.png
+| name = Chicken
-|description = The most traditional farm bird, the chicken is raised for its eggs and meat. It grows very quickly and lays eggs very often.
+| image = Chicken.png
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+| combatPower = 30
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+| healthscale = 0.35
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+| hungerrate = 0.14
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+| diet = herbivorous
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+| wildness = 0
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+| manhuntertame = 0
-|trainable = none
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+| roamMtb = 7
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+| trainable = none
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+| mateMtb = 8
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+| babyscale = 0.1
-<!--|matemtbhours = 8-->
+| lifespan = 6
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+| juvenileage = 0.12
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+| tradeTags = AnimalFarm, AnimalCommon
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+| attack1dmg = 2
-|page verified for version = A14D
+| attack1type = Scratch
-}}'''Chickens''' can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event. Hens will happily lay [[Chicken egg (unfert.)|unfertilized eggs]] without a rooster or they can be bred to start chicken farming. Chickens grow very quickly, taking just over one quadrum from being laid to full maturity - only being surpassed by the [[iguana]] in this aspect. Males of the species are referred to as '''Roosters''' and can be distinguished by their ruddy brown coloration, while females are referred to as '''Hens''' and are white. Babies of either gender are bright yellow and referred to as '''Chicks'''.
+| attack1cool = 1.5
+| attack1part = feet
+| attack2dmg = 3
+| attack2type = Bite
+| attack2cool = 2
+| attack2part = beak
+| attack3dmg = 1
+| attack3type = Blunt
+| attack3cool = 1.5
+| attack3part = head
+| attack3chancefactor = 0.2
+}}
+'''Chickens''' can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event.  Males of the species are referred to as '''Cockerels''' as adolescents and '''Roosters''' as adults and can be distinguished by their ruddy brown coloration, while females are referred to as '''Hens''' and are white. Babies of either gender are bright yellow and referred to as '''Chicks'''.
-==Training==
+== Summary ==
-Chickens lack the intelligence for training.
+{{Pen Animal Note|Chickens}}
+A female chicken produces {{P|Eggs Per Clutch Average}} [[egg]] every {{P|Egg Laying Interval}} day. Chickens can lay both [[Chicken egg (unfert.)|unfertilized]] and [[Chicken egg (fert.)|fertilized]] eggs, depending on if it has mated with a rooster.
+== Analysis ==
+Chickens are the best animal for egg production, and one of the best animals for meat production.
+Chickens grow very quickly, taking only {{#expr:{{P|Maturity Age}}*60 round 1}} days to mature, placing them among the fastest-growing animals. Combined with their incredibly fast reproduction rate of {{#expr:{{P|Eggs Per Clutch Average}}/{{P|Egg Laying Interval}}}} offspring per day, a population of chickens can rapidly explode from a single rooster and hen, theoretically increasing to a population of 1200 adults within the span of just a year. Once the population explosion gets going, the population will double every approximately 5.7 days.<!--simulated with clutch_size=1, egg_interval=1, maturity_age=12-->
+Chickens are nearly identical to [[duck]]s. Ducks provide the same yield in both meat and eggs. But ducks consume 20% more nutrition, so they are inferior as livestock.
+=== Eggs ===
+An adult hen consumes {{P|Real Hunger Rate}} nutrition per day, and produces {{#vardefineecho:egg_nutr_per_day|{{#expr:{{P|Eggs Per Clutch Average}}/{{P|Egg Laying Interval}}*{{Q|Chicken egg (unfert.)|Nutrition}}}}}} nutrition of eggs each day. This results in a nutrition efficiency of {{%|{{#var:egg_nutr_per_day}}/({{P|Base Hunger Rate}}*1.6) round 3}} when unfertilized eggs are eaten. [[Overeating]], and the existence of roosters, will lower nutrition efficiency in practice.
+Note that slaughtering chicks gives more nutrition than eating unhatched eggs (0.6 from meat rather than {{Q|Chicken egg (fert.)|Nutrition}} from 1 egg). Note that a rooster has to fertilize each hen, that hens have to be slaughtered, and that a butcher's yields are multiplied by [[Butchery Efficiency]]. So if you don't have a skilled cook, eggs may be better for nutrition. Also, eggs are vegetarian.
-{{TrainingTable}}
+=== Meat ===
+When slaughtered, a chicken yields {{#vardefineecho:baby_meat|{{Meat Leather Curve|{{#expr:{{P|Body Size}}*0.1*140}}}}}} meat as a chick; {{Meat Leather Curve|{{#expr:{{P|Body Size}}*0.5*140}}}} as a juvenile; or {{Meat Leather Curve|{{#expr:{{P|Body Size}}*140}}}} as an adult. No leather is yielded.
-==Livestock==
+When chicks are slaughtered, an always-fertilized hen produces {{#expr:{{Meat Production|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby}} round 2}} nutrition per day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of {{%|{{Meat Production|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby}}/({{P|Base Hunger Rate}}*1.6) round 3}} for the hen alone, or {{%|{{Meat Production|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby|{{#vardefineecho:femaleratio|{{#expr: 2/3*24*{{P|Egg Laying Interval}}/{{P|Mate Mtb Hours}} round 2}}}}}}/{{Nutrition Consumption|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby|{{#var:femaleratio}}|1}} round 3}} when accounting for the {{#var:femaleratio}}:1 hen:rooster ratio needed to achieve a good [[Animals#Mating|fertilization rate]].
-A chicken takes 7.2 days to become a juvenile, and a total of 18 days to reach adulthood.
-Chickens will regularly lay eggs if female, even if unfertilized, unlike other egg-laying livestock. Each egg has enough nutrition to replace the meat component in a fine meal. If you also have a rooster, he may fertilize eggs before a hen lays them. These eggs will then hatch into a chick, so long as it is left alone and does not experience extreme temperatures (Less than 0C, greater than 50C). Unfertilized eggs will never hatch. There is no difference between a fertilized and an unfertilized egg for the purpose of cooking.
+As a chick grows into adulthood, it will consume {{#expr:{{Consumption Upto Adulthood}} round 2}} nutrition in total, and will yield {{#expr:0.05*({{P|Meat Yield}} - {{#var:baby_meat}})}} more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. Due to the effects of [[overeating]], letting chickens grow up is a slight malus to meat yield. Despite being slightly worse, you may prefer to let chicks grow up, as slaughtering adult chickens takes less work.
-When slaughtered, a chicken yields 5 meat as a chick; 16 as a juvenile; or 22 as an adult. No leather is yielded. It's worth noting that allowing an egg to hatch and immediately slaughtering it for meat provides the exact same amount of nutrition as simply eating the egg. As a general rule this would mean that its still better to eat the egg as you don't need to wait until its hatched, the egg will last slightly longer in storage (important if you live somewhere with regular heat waves) and you don't need to generate a butchering job, ''unless'' you plan on making [[pemmican]] which requires meat exclusively.
+Chickens are the best pen animal for nutritional efficiency. The main competitors are the [[ibex]] and [[tortoise]]. [[Ibex]] are less efficient, but take far less slaughtering work. [[Tortoise]]s aren't pen animals, meaning they must be re-tamed over time, but are even better for nutrition.
-===Feeding===
+=== Kill-focused ===
-A chicken consumes 0.56 nutrition per day, or roughly 12 [[hay]].
+Chicken's rapid reproduction makes them good fodder for the  [[Persona traits#Kill-focused|Kill-focused]] persona trait.{{RoyaltyIcon}} This persona trait grants +20% [[psyfocus]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} whenever its wielder kills any pawn, even when slaughtering chickens or chicks. A coop can allow rapid use of psycasts, such as word of inspiration, which would otherwise be limited by psyfocus.
-The following is a list of how much [[haygrass]] it takes to sustain a mature chicken. Bracketed values are actual values rounded up to 2 decimal places:
+== Training ==
-* '''Gravel:''' 8 (7.18)
+Chickens lack the intelligence for training.
-* '''Soil:''' 6 (5.89)
-* '''Rich Soil:''' 5 (4.75)
-Therefore, when slaughtered as juveniles, chickens have a nutrition efficiency (nutrition out for nutrition in) of 28.1%. This makes them the 10th most efficient animal to farm for meat; more efficient than [[capybara]]s, but less efficient than [[pig]]s and [[wild boar]]s.
+{{TrainingTable}}
 == Health ==
-{{Animal Health Table}}
+{{Animal Health Table|Bird}}
-== Trivia ==
+== Gallery ==
-Despite being birds, they are defined in Races_Animal_Farm.xml instead of Races_Animal_Birds.xml, a quirk shared by the [[Duck]] and [[Goose]].
+<gallery>
+Chicken east.png|Hen facing east
+Chicken north.png|Hen facing north
+Chicken south.png|Hen facing south
+Dessicated chicken east.png|Chicken decaying
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Rooster.png|Rooster facing east
+Rooster North.png|Rooster facing north
+Rooster South.png|Rooster facing south
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Chick.png|Chick facing east
+Chick North.png|Chick facing north
+Chick South.png|Chick facing south
+</gallery>
 == Version history ==
 * [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Added
+* Alpha 17 - Prior to Alpha 17, chickens were one of the fastest reproducing animals in the game. However, they were nerfed in Alpha 17 in both body size and breeding rate, making them significantly less efficient than they used to be. In fact, after Alpha 17, it was much more nutrition-efficient to farm [[snowhare]]s for meat and [[cow]]s for [[milk]].
+* [[Version/1.3.3066|1.3]]:
+**Egg interval: 2 -> 1
+**Base hunger rate: 0.35 -> 0.14
+**Maturity age: 0.3 -> 0.2
-Prior to Alpha 17, chickens were one of the fastest reproducing animals in the game. However, they were nerfed in Alpha 17 in both body size and breeding rate, making them significantly less efficient than they used to be. In fact, it's much more nutrition-efficient to farm [[snowhare]]s for meat and [[cow]]s for [[milk]].
+{{nav|animal|wide}}
-{{nav|animal}}
 [[Category:Animals]]
-[[Category:Farm]]
+[[Category:Farm animal]]